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Consuming Passions

Tech companies race to serve the consumer -- but will anyone make
money?

THE TECH BUSINESS HAS ITS MOJO BACK. And -- wouldn't you know it? -- it was sitting right there in our living rooms the whole time. So what if Corporate America isn't in any big hurry to start spending on technology again. It's the era of consumer digital nirvana, and every tech company extant is engaged in a mad scramble to get a piece of the action.

Not long ago, the conventional wisdom in the tech business was that while consumers got to play with the fun stuff, the enterprise was where the action was. That's what the...